Essay On Infatuation In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is a play about two young teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love at first sight, even though they are from feuding families. Throughout the play, they move into their relationship very quickly, and get married on the second day, all while killing themselves the next. Eventually, their deaths fixes the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues, but it is at their expense because they had to die. When analyzing this play, many people wonder if Romeo and Juliet are actually in love? To many, love is an intense feeling of long-lasting deep affection or devotion that happens over the course of a relationship, while many people believe infatuation, an intense but short-lived passion for someone to be a term to describe the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Because both of them are trying to escape something, Romeo tries to get over Rosaline, while Juliet does not want to marry Paris, one can infer throughout the course of the novel that Romeo and Juliet are not really

One of the extreme things that that they did is get married the day after they first met. Just by deciding to get married without truly knowing one another is a sign that they are indeed star-crossed lovers. When Juliet says “my grave is to be my wedding day”(I.IV.148-9), it shows how utmost her infatuation is toward Romeo, because she decides that she will “love” and be devoted to him forever by contrasting their wedding day with a grave, which symbolizes eternity. By using a serious word such as ‘grave” to compare it to her wedding day, it suggests that if she does not marry Romeo, she will die. This is evident in the text because later in the play, Juliet kills herself because she found Romeo dead on the floor because he killed himself because he thought that she supposedly passed